adverb
hōrsum
hōrsum (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparablehither, this way
horsum, adv. contr. from hoc = huc and vorsum,
I. hitherwards, hither, this way (ante-class.):
pergunt, Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 36: horsum se capessit, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 83; id. Mil. 2, 3, 33: te adiget horsum insomnia Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 13.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
hōrsum adv.
ho- (for hoc, huc)+vorsum, hitherwards, hither, this way : pergere, T.
Origins
Contraction of hoc (“this”) + vorsum (“toward”).